Re: GUIDs

David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> writes:

> On Friday, November 14, 2003, at 12:04  AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>
> > Couldn't you use numeric? That should be fairly portable.
>
> Not really. The GUID is 128 bits, which doesn't work so well on 32-bit
> systems.

NUMERIC is an arbitrary-precision integer, not a machine word.

-Doug